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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
PG-13
Action
Adventure
Crime
Mystery
Thriller

Release Date
November 22, 2011
Director
Guy Ritchie
Runtime
128
Main Genre
Action
Writers
Michele Mulroney , Kieran Mulroney , Arthur Conan Doyle
Tagline
December 16

Summary

Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)—and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder—a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by Professor Moriarty. The cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes as he spins a web of death and destruction—all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.

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